Calling World of Warcraft playing kilties.

**Erisianmonkey** · 31st October 09, 07:23 PM

I figure I should tell everyone what sucks up most of my online time these days to where I hardly forum post anymore. I have become a WoW addict. I play mostly on Icecrown (US) realm, and my main is a human warlock named Fnordella. If you happen to be an Alliance player on Icecrown, I would love to hear from you. I also occasionally play Horde on Drak'thul (US) realm. My main there is a Tauren Death Knight by the name of Sacredchao.

Also, with the upcoming Battle.Net changes and the ability for cross-realm chat, I'd love to know who all plays here. Maybe once they get that cross realm chat we can get some kind of XMarks group going.

For the Alliance!Of Kilties

**CDNSushi** · 1st November 09, 12:43 AM

Sorry, not on Icecrown. I have a few alts on a few servers but my main (80 feral druid) is on Muradin.

Would be cool if we could coordinate a few ppl from xmts to play casually. I'm always up for starting a new alt if it's on a GOOD RP server... But GOOD RP servers are as rare as hen's teeth. Haven't really found one yet.

(BTW, Muradin is std not RP)

**Arlen** · 1st November 09, 11:38 AM

I just got the 10 day trial to give it a go. I might get the game at some point if I like this, but I'm no sure I'll pay for the online subscription. Is it really worth the money?

**###KILTEDKIWI###** · 1st November 09, 02:38 PM

Another one lost to the fold...

seems to draw all of peoples free time into oblivion...

**Erisianmonkey** · 1st November 09, 07:46 PM

Originally Posted by Arlen

I just got the 10 day trial to give it a go. I might get the game at some point if I like this, but I'm no sure I'll pay for the online subscription. Is it really worth the money?

I certainly think so. It's quite a fun hobby. If you consider the fact that it's only $15 a month, it's not a bad deal. For that $15 you can play as much or as little as you want. I've had times where I've played for 12 hours, or times I've played just a few minutes here and there for a week or two. And your characters stay even if you decide you don't want to spend the money for awhile. If you're just getting into it, I would wait until you hit the level cap to get the expansions, unless you feel you *must* play a Draenei or Blood Elf.

Originally Posted by ###KILTEDKIWI###

Another one lost to the fold...

seems to draw all of peoples free time into oblivion...

It can. But if one has any kind of self-restraint at all they can manage their game time wisely. You don't have to join one of the gung-ho "you must raid with us X hours a day" guilds, there are casual guilds, and then some folks never join a guild at all. I chose to make my own little guild for my main and alts on my main server. I mostly go out and quest, or join pick-up groups for dungeons sometimes. There are almost as many ways to play WoW as there are people who play. And that is quite the number.

**Arlen** · 2nd November 09, 09:32 AM

Originally Posted by Erisianmonkey

I certainly think so. It's quite a fun hobby. If you consider the fact that it's only $15 a month, it's not a bad deal. For that $15 you can play as much or as little as you want. I've had times where I've played for 12 hours, or times I've played just a few minutes here and there for a week or two. And your characters stay even if you decide you don't want to spend the money for awhile. If you're just getting into it, I would wait until you hit the level cap to get the expansions, unless you feel you *must* play a Draenei or Blood Elf.

I might consider getting the game, then. It'll be a while before I am in a position to get an online account but we'll see.
I met another player last night who helped me quest and showed me the ropes which was nice, but I sunk 2 hours into playing that I could have spent with my wife! I'm not sure how much I'll be helping people with 7 or 8 quests at a time any more!

**Erisianmonkey** · 3rd November 09, 09:30 PM

Originally Posted by Arlen

I might consider getting the game, then. It'll be a while before I am in a position to get an online account but we'll see.
I met another player last night who helped me quest and showed me the ropes which was nice, but I sunk 2 hours into playing that I could have spent with my wife! I'm not sure how much I'll be helping people with 7 or 8 quests at a time any more!

Yeah, one nice thing about WoW is that the little clock on your minimap can be clicked and it brings up an interface where you can set an alarm to let you know when the time you set aside to play is over. If you set limits and abide by them, it's as healthy a hobby as anything else.

What server are you on?

**Tattoo Bradley** · 3rd November 09, 11:42 PM

I <3 WoW.

I play a Human Warlock on Fizzcrank. He's technically an alt as he's only level 60. My level 80 toon is a Night Elf Death Knight, also on Fizzcrank with about a 4600 gear score and 4K DPS. I grew so tired of being one of the seemingly millions of DKs (and most of them complete failz) that I re-rolled. He'll be 80 in a few weeks.

Warlock is by far my favorite class. Affliction spec FTW!

**Erisianmonkey** · 4th November 09, 01:04 AM

Originally Posted by Tattoo Bradley

I <3 WoW.

I play a Human Warlock on Fizzcrank. He's technically an alt as he's only level 60. My level 80 toon is a Night Elf Death Knight, also on Fizzcrank with about a 4600 gear score and 4K DPS. I grew so tired of being one of the seemingly millions of DKs (and most of them complete failz) that I re-rolled. He'll be 80 in a few weeks.

Warlock is by far my favorite class. Affliction spec FTW!

Yeah, I rolled a death knight a few days into WotLK. I deleted it a week later. That was at the time I was still leveling my main, and you couldn't sneeze without 32,000 DK's saying gesundheit. I just recently rolled horde on Drak'thul. I've got the DK as my main there for the time being, as my friends that play horde there have 80's, and this way I only have a bit of leveling to do to play with them. We don't do much with the horde stuff right now, we're still getting geared on our ally characters on Icecrown. Gear score doesn't impress me. DPS does. I'm in mostly ilvl200 PvP gear, and none of my heroic drops are above ilvl213. I smoked someone on the DPS charts the other day in full-on Ulduar 25 dropped gear-and my average DPS is about 1700-1900 self-buffed. (Fel Armor and firestone)

Watch out on afflic spec. It does indeed rock at around 60, and supposedly if the stuff on PTR comes through it will be a viable spec at 80 again. But don't hold your breath. I'm specced deep destro for heroics right now, and I've got Demonology as my off-spec to play with, but I had to drop afflic at about 65 because I just couldn't keep the blueberry alive and the dot's up anymore. (That and dot dot boom is a lot more fun for me than dot dot drain.) Deep destro is a lot of fun in Northrend Heroics. You get to put up a good rotation even on the trash mobs, unlike a lot of the old world and outland dungeons where the vast majority of everything but a boss fight is just spam rain of fire while your tank tries to keep aggro. Not that you don't have to use RoF quite a bit, that's unavoidable being a lock's only real AoE.

Do you run with a guild, or just do pick-up groups for dungeons? Wait, if you're pulling 4k DPS, you're raiding and in at least tier 7.5 gear. I've thought about joining a guild a couple of times, but the major guilds on Icecrown are full of...well, let's just say that the description would not be fitting for polite company such as the ladies and gentlemen of this wonderful forum. What I did do at about level 35 was to get my own guild just for my main and most of my alts. It sure cut down on people slapping me with random guild invites every time I rode through Stormwind.

Anyway, now that I've got the non-players amongst us scratching their heads, I hope they'll join us in game so they can see what I'm on about.

**Tattoo Bradley** · 4th November 09, 09:22 AM

There are still 32,000 DKs lurking about in Fizzcrank. I became self-loathing due to "fail by association" even though my DPS is pretty ok. Yes, I am in a raiding guild with some good people (both good players and just good all around people.) I really hate PuG'ing. I have had far too many fail groups (could just be a server thing.) I have a mixture of T7.5, T9, Triumph (lvl 245) and Conquest (lvl 226.) My two trinkets are both lvl 200. But, being that I've re-rolled I'm not really worrying about them anymore. I hop on him each day for the H Daily. When I get 15 triumph I buy a crusader orb and sell for 1K~. The gold goes to the Lock for those expensive necessities (defrosted flying and artisan flying.)

I'm dual spec'd on the Lock (and the DK for that matter.) Atm I have the affliction spec as my main and demonology as my off. I've already been seeing my VW having a heck of a time keeping alive while the DoTs do their work, so i've been researching deep destro. My plan at 80 is to have a destro raid spec and an affliction or possibly an affliction/demon spec for PvP.